{"id":9987,"date":"2026-04-05T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ai-jobs-automation-expert\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:15:00","slug":"ai-jobs-automation-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ai-jobs-automation-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Expert Says It\u2019s Time to Stop Freaking Out About AI Taking Our Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Few fears have taken hold of the public imagination quite like the specter of AI-driven unemployment. A recent survey<\/a> by the think tank Data for Progress found that a majority of US voters think AI is likely to increase unemployment rates, a scenario that often feels like it\u2019s playing out in the horrid job market<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It makes a compelling narrative. Yet in a recent article published in Fortune<\/em><\/a>, New York University cognitive scientist emeritus and prominent AI critic Gary Marcus makes a strong case in the opposite direction: that AI isn\u2019t coming for anyone\u2019s job anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Plenty of the fear mongering, Marcus writes, comes down to good ol\u2019 propaganda. The AI industry, for example, wants you to believe that artificial general intelligence \u2014 a still-theoretical form of AI with intellectual capabilities that rival or surpass that of humans \u2014 is either already here<\/a>, or just around the corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Marcus notes, this kind of AI remains firmly in the realm of science fiction, regardless of what tech executives would like anybody to believe. \u201c[T]hey might be covering their bases in case that actually happens,\u201d he writes, \u201cbut then again, maybe they just want you to drive up the valuations of their companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The math on AI-driven unemployment likewise doesn\u2019t add up, Marcus writes, including that by AI companies themselves. Take Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude: its CEO Dario Amodei has made a spectacle of himself<\/a> warning of a growing AI job apocalypse, even though his company\u2019s own research department<\/a> found \u201cno systematic increase in unemployment for highly exposed workers since late 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s really happening, Marcus argues, is that corporations are AI-washing their investor reports to cash in on the hype. \u201cIn many cases AI may be serving as a fig leaf to cover layoffs that are actually driven by financial underperformance or earlier overhiring,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

Where mass layoffs are explicitly blamed on AI, they tend not to last<\/a>, like at the finance tech company Klarna, which had to reverse course<\/a> on its decision to automate customer service workers just 11 months after it declared them obsolete.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for anyone praying for a cyberpunk future, so far the AI apocalypse seems to have landed with a wet plop. Luckily, there are plenty of real life crises to keep us occupied until the singularity ever comes \u2014 if it does at all, that is.<\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>If You\u2019re a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI Job Applications Will Make Your Blood Boil<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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